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Metallurgy Dept. Adds New Faculty Member

The D epartment of M etallurgical E ngin eerin g has been fortunate in obtaining the services of a new fac ulty member with extensive experience in both industry and teaching. Dr. D an iel S. Eppe lsheimer, as s ociate professor of Metallurgical En gin eering, comes to the School of Mines and IV[etallurgy from the Metal Hydrides Co., of Beve rly, Massac husetts: where he was Chief Phys ical Me tallurgist.

Dr. Eppe ls h eime r obtained both hi s und e rg ra duate and grad ua te d e g l' e e s from H arvard U ni

DR. DA NIEL F. EPPEL SHEI MER versity and began his te achin g caree r as ass istant to Dr. Albert Sauveur, known as the "Dean o f Ameri can Metallurgists."

From 1936 to 1938 Dr. E ppelsheimer was a research meta ll ergist for the U nion Carbide and Carbon Co rporation. Foll owing this period he was Research Professor of Industrial En gineerin g and Acti ve Director of the Engineering Experiment S tation at the of New Hampshire for several years before goin g with the Metal H ydrides Co.

At Rolla Dr. E ppelsheimer will be in charge of the instruction and research in I ron and Steel, and will supervise the work in the X-ray s tudy of metals.

At the present time Dr. Eppelshei mer is busy looking for a suitable house in order that his wife and two boys may join him here.

Two New Buildings Requested of Legislature

The Board of Curators in their reques t for the biennial appropriations for MSM asked for funds to complete the C h emical Enginee rin g Building at a to tal cost of $280,000, and al so requested a new bui ldin g to be known as the Mine ral I ndustries Bui lding and which will cost $500,000. Approasked for repairing buildin gs was $150,000.

The Legislature was as ked to appropriate $779,280 for s alaries, $180,000 for additions to the campus, and $462,650 for operation and repairs. The total reques t for funds for the n ext two years amounts to $2,351,930.

This matter is now befo re the L egislature at J efferson C ity. D ean \ >\1i lson, in presentin g the reques ts fo r appropriations to the Board, pointed out that class room space in the years ahead is going to , be defi nitely a problem. The Old Chemical Buildin g, parts of which were abandom:d and used fo.r s tore rooms following completion of the first unit of the Chemi cal En gineerin g B uilding, has now been cleaned up, repaired, and is once more bein g used for chemistry l aboratories.

Some fi ve years ago the L egislature appropriated funds for a complete new Chemical En gineerin g' Buildin g. Half of these fun ds were withheld, however, and only one-half of the building was constructed. The reques t listed ahove is to compl ete thi s incompleted s tructure.

Miss Juanita Steiner Commissioned H onorary Cadet Colonel

By CECIL BRANSON '47

Miss Juanita Steiner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. S teiner of Roll a, was formally commissioned Honorary Cadet Colonel of the ROTC unit of MSM at the 14th annual Military Ball held on Feb. 8.

In true form of military balls, Miss Steiner and her escort led a grand march immediately after the commissioni ng ceremo ni es. Juanita received the cape, significant of the hono rary rank, at one end of a lon g aisle formed by two Il!1 es of cadets at " presen t arm5." After the formal commIss ioning ceremoni es, Juanita descended from throne and led the g ranc.h march through the lines of cadets. At the concluof the grand march, Juanita and her escort fo rmally started the danci ng.

Col orful entertainment at the intermission of dancin g was s upplied to the over-flo wi ng crowd in J acklin g Gymnasium by two campus groups, the D etonators and th e Campus Fencin g Club. The Campus F encin g group staged several exciting fencing duels. The Detonators, a crack drill unit consisting of abou t 20 men, executed the snappy "Q ueen Ann e Man ual of A rms" with exacting precision. The drill was don e entirely s ilen t in marchin g cadence.

A former United Press war correspondent oi international fame and at th e present time instructor at MSM, Hugh Crimpier, was presented with the China-Burma-India theater ribbons citation by ROTC head, Maj. Richardson . Hugh was in the first group of men to enter Japan after VJ day. The award came by an order from Army H eadquarters in appreciation for services as a U .P . correspondent. H ugh attended MSM, receiving his degree from Columbia.

To add to the ball's military aspects, many of the vast host of men at the ball wore m il itary uniforms. All military students of the school wore their ROTC unifo rms and the many student veterans " dug" their past service uniforms from out of moth ball storage and wore them for the occas ion.

As most of the Alumni will rem ember, the Military Dall has always been one of the outstanding social events of the year on the campus. The ball has been presented at MSM for 24 consecutive years in the school's 75 year history w ith the exception of the few years during the last world war. The ball this year was probably the larges t of series that were s taged on the campus. M S M Players Revived

MSlvI Players, for many years active on the campus, and which has been dormant durin g the war, has bee:l reaci ivated and is now engaged in rehears in g their first play to be given during the SI. Pat's celebration. The title of the play will be "T he Front Page."

A lpha P si A mega, the Honor Dramatic fraternity, which is an offspring of the MSM P layers on the campus was al so r eactivated and wi ll become more active as pledges from the P l ayers organization are initiated into the Fra ternity. Fred Springe r '49 is president of both P layers and Alpha Ps i Omega.

New Fraternity Organized

Tau Kappa Epsi lon national social fraternity has establish ed a colony on the MSM campus w hich w ill eventually b ecome a full fl edged chapter at the school. Dr. M. ]. Caldwell, instructor in Chemistry, is faculty adviser for the g roup which has not yet.been able to obtain a suitable house. Ho wevel', they are hoi"ding regular meetin gs in Mechanical H all. Sunday dinn ers are being se rved to bring the members together socially. There are approximately fifty members in the chapter.

The Fraterni ty was founded at Illinois W esleyan Coll ege in 1899, and at p resent has 64 underg raduate chapters and 40 graduate chapters throughout the Uni ted States. There is a total of 11 ,000 membership.